California at Oregon

Saturday, October 15, 1955

Oregon beat California 21–⁠0. It was their 25th meeting; after it, California led the series 15–⁠9–⁠1.

AwayCalifornia2–⁠7–⁠1 in 1955
0
HomeOregon6–⁠4 in 1955
21

FinalHigh 62°F, low 44°FAttendance 21,515

In the newspapers

  • The Daily Sitka sentinel and the arrowhead press's story: CAL STUDENTS HANG BEAR HEAD COACH

    Daily Sitka sentinel and the arrowhead press, Alaska, October 18, 1955, page 4

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    CAL STUDENTS HANG BEAR HEAD COACH Berkeley, Calif. (P) Chancel- Tor Clark Kerr of the Urliver- sity of California quickly rail- jed to the defense of football coach Lynn o. Pappy| Wal dorf, who was hung in effigy on campus gate Monday. Waldorf’s, whose Bear squad was trimmed 21–⁠0 last Saturday by Oregon, wryly told sports writers, tits one of the haz- ards of the coaching profession Kerr said few students who considered themselves ‘‘vigil- antes” were responsible. Waldonf’s California team next Saturday will meet South ern California. 33–⁠21 victor last week over powerful Wisconsin of the Big Ten.

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Oregon 54% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Oregon leads 42–⁠39–⁠1 in 82 meetings, counting the 57 since this game.

Recent meetings
2023Oregon 63, California 19
2022Oregon 42, California 24
2021Oregon 24, California 17
2020California 21, Oregon 17
2019Oregon 17, California 7
2018Oregon 42, California 24

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